818 Quotes About Coming-of-age

That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.

Something—he wondered later if it was simply his youth—something that had weighed upon him until that moment broke off him, the way a piece of rock slides slowly into the sea and disappears in a spray of foam.

I was an American girl; I possessed what our culture valued most-independance and blind courage.

Момо выглядит куда более уверенной в себе, нежели я. В ней есть убежденность в том, как правильно жить дальше. Эта убежденность существует, пока дочь не знает, что стоит на краю пропасти.

I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

It's funny, the roles we play, the way we have to give up the old ones before we have room for the new ones. The first-first love stuff never goes away in here" she said, pointing to her head. "It makes you who you are. But in here," putting her hand on her chest, "time lets that grow and change. You'll see

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

My fish dream is a sex dream.

The kinds of jobs a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old can get are not worth doing. They pay shit and suck.